| Author: | Ben Pastor | ISBN: | 9781908524522 |
| Publisher: | Bitter Lemon Press | Publication: | May 11, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Bitter Lemon Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ben Pastor |
| ISBN: | 9781908524522 |
| Publisher: | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Publication: | May 11, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Language: | English |
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The fourth in the Martin Bora series. Spellbinding multi-layered crime novel set in a fascinating period and place. Set in Ukraine as the Germans regroup after the disaster of Stalingrad. As the Wehrmacht prepare for the Kursk counter-offensive, a Russian general defects aboard a T-34, the most advanced tank of the war. Soon he and another general, this one previously captured, are found dead in their cells.
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Controversially, the hero is an aristocratic German officer in the Wehrmacht. With echoes of Claus von Stauffenberg, he is torn between his duty as an officer and his integrity as a human being. At a time when weariness, disillusionment, and battle fatigue are a soldier’s daily fare, Bora seems to be one of the few whose sanity was not marred by the horrors of war.
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Will appeal to fans of Phillip Kerr (Bernie Gunther series), Alan Furst (“Spies of the Balkans”) and Bernhard Schlink’s “The Reader”.
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It should benefit from the vogue for WWII in fiction, film and tv. “Valkyrie”, “Inglourious Basterds”, “Pacific”.
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Fourth of a series of five to be published by Bitter Lemon Press.
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The fourth in the Martin Bora series. Spellbinding multi-layered crime novel set in a fascinating period and place. Set in Ukraine as the Germans regroup after the disaster of Stalingrad. As the Wehrmacht prepare for the Kursk counter-offensive, a Russian general defects aboard a T-34, the most advanced tank of the war. Soon he and another general, this one previously captured, are found dead in their cells.
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Controversially, the hero is an aristocratic German officer in the Wehrmacht. With echoes of Claus von Stauffenberg, he is torn between his duty as an officer and his integrity as a human being. At a time when weariness, disillusionment, and battle fatigue are a soldier’s daily fare, Bora seems to be one of the few whose sanity was not marred by the horrors of war.
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Will appeal to fans of Phillip Kerr (Bernie Gunther series), Alan Furst (“Spies of the Balkans”) and Bernhard Schlink’s “The Reader”.
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It should benefit from the vogue for WWII in fiction, film and tv. “Valkyrie”, “Inglourious Basterds”, “Pacific”.
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Fourth of a series of five to be published by Bitter Lemon Press.
